During the decade immediately preceding the declaration of war, it had embarked upon a policy of naval upbuilding that brought it into direct conflict with England's sea policy.
After vain endeavors to keep the ship afloat the Elbing was blown up, but only after her crew had embarked on torpedo boats.
He became possessed of some eight hundred francs through successful gambling, and spent six hundred in taking passage to Amsterdam; he embarked without let or hindrance and went direct to Paris on arrival.
Later a small proportion of warders embarked in each.
The tax suggested would be levied on the excessive profits distributed in respect of the capital embarked in businesses of every kind.
The boats were quickly lowered; all the passengers and most of the crew embarked before a second torpedo struck the ship.
Directly the steamer took the ground her master and crew embarked in the starboard life-boat; but when 100 yards from their ship, the Germans opened fire on them with a machine-gun and wounded the second mate.
Two of these and one small boat were launched, and all hands were safelyembarked in them.
Reaching a point where the river had become comparatively narrow, theyembarked in small boats, and launched out on the Uruguay at dead of night.
But the next evening they embarked once more, and reached in safety the beach of La Agraciada on their native shore.
Rosario is, in the main, a commercial centre, whence many products of Northern Argentina are embarked on the full-flowing Paraná which washes its quays.
A few minutes afterwards all the sailors save one embarked in the boats and went to the island, which was visible not far off.
The three canoes which had been carried from the Hidden River, were embarked on the Kasai.
We embarked upon the river three days ago, and paddled up-stream until this afternoon, when we sighted your camp, and nearly came to blows.
On hearing this, Boxall proposed to the boatswain that we should assist in building the large raft; and, as a considerable number of seamen on whom he could depend had already embarked in the boats, he thankfully accepted our offer.
The barge immediately shoved off; and then most of the civilians and naval officers hurriedly embarked in the other boats.
Having recruited our strength, we some days after left our kind French friends and set off for Algiers, where we arrived safely; and soon afterwards, accompanied by Selim, we embarked for England.
His host provided him with victual and embarked him in the ship; and it set sail and arrived, in due course, at the coast of Syria, where he landed and journeyed till he entered Damascus.
They built a ship, in which they embarked and sailed away.
So she embarked and he put off with her; but they had not gone far, before there came out a stern-wind upon the boat and drove it swiftly out of sight of land.
The man took him home and entreated him hospitably, then, furnishing him with victual [for the voyage] and giving him somewhat of money, embarked him on board the vessel bound for Damietta.
Then some of them returned with the ship and breaking it up, went their way; and methinks those, who embarked in the ship and returned not, are they whom thou seekest.
By the end of October the Chilean army embarked at Antofagasta ten thousand strong and well provided with cavalry and the most modern artillery.
Five days after Balmaceda's proclamation the congressionalist chiefs embarked on board the war-ships lying in Valparaiso Bay, and the civil war was on.
Provisions fell short, and within a year the survivors re-embarked in a miserable plight.
More than half the latter managed to escape to Valparaiso, where they embarked for Peru.
Your youth is your best safeguard because no one would ever believe you to be embarked on anything like this.
Ten minutes later, they embarked in one of the larger planes, and went sailing off, O'Brien at the wheel, cutting a straight course toward the east.
They were weary of the incessant warfare and it was, moreover, the season of the heats, when no man willingly embarked upon arduous tasks.
An order was promulgated forbidding bloodshed, and the orderly settlement of Believers among the Meccan population embarked upon.
There Mahomet rested before he embarked upon the final journey.
Some of those who accompanied their brethren to the Goletta sat down upon a bank, from which they could look to the ships where they embarked for Jerusalem; but soon there came a Moor with a stick in his hand, and drove them away.
On November 21 of the same year, the two missionaries embarked on the Tigris for the purpose of undertaking a second journey in Persia.
In 1859 Stern embarked on the first of his most memorable journeys to Abyssinia.
In vain do you show your passport, indorsed by the Spanish consul at the port from which you embarked in America.
It was hence that Cortez embarked for the conquest of Mexico; a gigantic undertaking, a slight glance at which will recall to the mind of the reader the period of history to which we would direct his attention.
May 4th, the whole commandembarked at Gloucester Point and ascended the James.
The boys “changed front to the rear,” and took the cars to City Point, and there embarked on the steamer United States.
The forces embarked with the addition of 1500 men and a siege train (which was not landed), and moved down the James.
The Sixth embarked on the steamer Belvidere and steamed down to Hilton Head, where we lay for one day awaiting orders; in the mean time troops were embarking and getting ready to sail.
We embarked on the steamer Elm City and soon stretched ourselves on the several decks and in the cabin, glad enough for a chance to rest ourselves, for the rain had drenched us through to the skin.
We embarked in the morning and landed at 10 o’clock at night; marched through the woods to the end of the island opposite Fort Pulaski.
Having made these dispositions, I embarked in the Lady Nelson with the naturalist, taking my whale boat and surveying instruments.
On the 25th and 27th of July the regiment embarked at Portsmouth, landed in the following month at Lisbon, under the command of Lieut.
The troops embarked May 19th, sailed June the 1st, and arrived on the French coast so as to land in Cancalle Bay on the 5th.
The Earl of Galway embarked for Lisbon, and Brigadier-General Carpenter remained in command of the troops in Catalonia.
At this period King William was engaged in a war with France, and the third horse and QUEEN'S dragoons having been reviewed by His Majesty in Hyde Park, on the 26th of March embarked for foreign service.
Leif, knowing persuasion to be vain, pursued his way alone, and embarked with his thirty-five shipmates.
The day before he embarked he wrote to James; he said that no man would buy a horse, nor trust a prince, that showed no spirit.
The manufacturer having embarked his capital, has an unquestionable right to high profits.
On finding that the culprits had put to sea, he also embarked and followed the course of their boat to its landing-place.
With this view two thousand forces, commanded by Don Antonio de Rodondo, embarked at the Havanna, under the convoy of a strong squadron, and arrived at Augustine in May 1742.
Accordingly six of them agreed, and accompanied Sir Alexander to Charlestown, where being joined by another, they embarked for England in the Fox man of war, and arrived at Dover in June 1730.
Three thousand seven hundred and sixty adventurers embarked for America on these favourable terms, and settled at Halifax, which place was fixed on as the seat of government, and fortified.
James Oglethorpe, one of the Trustees, embarked along with them, and proved a zealous and active promoter of the settlement.
Multitudes of labourers and husbandmen in Ireland, oppressed by landlords and bishops, and unable by their utmost diligence to procure a comfortable subsistence for their families, embarked for Carolina.
After which Oglethorpe embarked with all possible expedition, and sailed for England.
The brave Colonel Montgomery, who conducted the former expedition, having by this time embarkedfor England, the command of the Highlanders devolved on Lieutenant-Colonel James Grant, who received orders to return to the relief of Carolina.
In November following, one hundred and sixteen settlers embarked at Gravesend for Georgia, having their passage paid, and every thing requisite for building and cultivation furnished them by the Corporation.
There is plenty of room in the house, for I embarked my wife and family ten days since, and there is no one but myself and the servants here.
He then embarked his men, taking a part at a time, and thus, ascending the river a few miles farther, reached a place called Cedro Bueno.
Morgan embarked his prisoners and all of his plunder on board his fleet and spread his sails for this new enterprise.
Kidd, having resolutely embarkedon a piratic cruise, impressed the captain, Parker, as pilot in those unknown waters.
These men had embarked from Tortuga, with the expectation that dollars and doubloons would be gathered by shovelfuls.
I do this believing that he will carry out my wishes in connection with the said property for his own benefit, as well as for that of many friends who have embarked their money in my last enterprise, the aforesaid `White Virgin' mine.
My mission is to make this mine a successful venture for the sake of those who have embarked in the scheme, and my thoughts run upon the work, and that alone.
Willamette] and after dinner embarked in one of the Company's boats kindly maned for us by Dr.
In his diary, Jason Lee says: "After dinner embarkedin one of the Company's boats, kindly manned for us by Dr.
Griffith received the news an hour before their arrival, and mounting, rode down to the Avon and embarked on board ship.
The proposal was received with acclamation, and the following morning the whole party embarkedupon the three ships.
In 1569 he embarked on a French ship that he found near the mouth of the St. John River in what is now the province of New Brunswick.
The two leaders were jealous of each other, and for fear either should gain advantage by prior arrival they embarked in the same ship.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "embarked" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
